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Sept. 9, 2005
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Note:
Robert Connolly, associate professor of international finance and economics in the Kenan-Flagler Business School, will be featured in a segment airing today on CNN’s “News Night with Aaron Brown” between 10 p.m. and midnight. Connolly will be discussing Hurricane Katrina’s effect on the furniture industry. This interview was coordinated by News Services.
National Coverage
Researchers Launch Biggest Study of US Children
Reuters
Researchers hoping to determine the causes of many common diseases like autism and diabetes will follow 100,000 U.S. children from birth through adulthood in the largest ever study of its kind. ...Six centers were named on Thursday where the research will begin -- the University of California in Irvine, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/nationalchildren092905.htmMajor study of kids to start
The Associated Press (National)
Mothers-to-be in six states will be the first recruited for the largest study of U.S. children ever performed, aiming to track 100,000 from the womb to age 21 to learn how the environment affects youngsters' health. ...Enrollment won't begin until 2007. In the first six sites, announced Thursday, researchers will spend the next year working with local health groups to determine how to recruit women and babies representative of the communities: Orange County, Calif., with research led by the University of California, Irvine.; Duplin County, N.C.; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Additional Coverage: The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Washington Post, Newsweek, ABC News, The Chicago Sun-Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The Arizona Republic, The Kansas City Star, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas), The Los Angeles Daily News, San Luis Obispo Tribune (Calif), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Myrtle Beach Sun News, The Centre Daily-Times (Penn.), The Wilkes Barre Times-Leader (Pa.), The Biloxi Sun Herald (Miss.)Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: Source of Next Nominee?
"Morning Edition," National Public Radio
Michael Gerhardt, professor of law, University of Chapel Hill at North Carolina and author of The Pressure of Precedent and The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis, was featured on Friday's (Sept. 30) "Morning Edition." Several of the judges President Bush is considering for the next Supreme Court Justice come from a single Southern appeals court. Steve Inskeep speaks to an observer of the Fifth Circuit court of appeals, Michael Gerhardt. One of the most respected news magazines in the world, Morning Edition airs Monday through Friday on more than 600 NPR stations across the United States, and around the globe on NPR's international services.
UNC News Tip: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/nomination092705.htmLow cholesterol linked to Parkinson's risk in men
Reuters
Is it possible to have too low a level of cholesterol? A cholesterol profile that reduces the risk of heart disease may increase the risk for Parkinson's disease -- at least for men -- researchers report. ...Huang and colleagues, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, measured the lipid levels of 124 Parkinson's patients and a group of 112 similar people free of Parkinson's disease.
State & Local Coverage
Duplin kids part of national study
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The next generation of babies in rural Duplin County will be watched closely for many years by Triangle scientists, even before they are born. UNC-Chapel Hill researchers want to enroll 1,250 Duplin newborns for a health study lasting 21 years beginning in 2007. The project will attempt to capture what foods, exposures, habits, even genetic differences put youths at risk for obesity, asthma, diabetes and mental illness.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/nationalchildren092905.htmN.C. among first sites picked for ambitious child-health study
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Mothers-to-be in North Carolina and five other states will be the first recruited for the largest study of U.S. children ever performed, aiming to track 100,000 from the womb to age 21 to learn how the environment affects youngsters' health. ...... Enrollment won't begin until 2007. In the first six sites, announced Thursday, researchers will spend the next year working with local health groups to determine how to recruit women and babies representative of the communities: Orange County, Calif., with research led by the University of California, Irvine.; Duplin County, N.C.; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Additional coverage: The Lexington Dispatch, WCNC-TV (NBC, Raleigh), WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)New hospital will benefit entire state (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
It can sometimes seem that the entire UNC campus is one large construction site. Wherever you look -- and definitely wherever you try to park -- there are cranes, back hoes and earthmovers, an entire panoply of a work in progress. That is no more true than on the part of the campus devoted to medicine. All around Manning Drive, new facilities are springing up. None, however, will be more important than the North Carolina Cancer Hospital.
A breaking ground facility
The Daily Tar Heel
Under a white tent in the parking lot of the N.C. Neurosciences Hospital, hundreds of policymakers, academics and doctors gathered Wednesday in celebration. ...“We must keep in mind that within these facilities that we create are the real life, daily struggles of our loved ones,” said Bill Roper, CEO of UNC Health Care.Speaker to share research findings
The Daily Tar Heel
Seniors graduating this December will be sent into the real world after a commencement speech by Etta Pisano, Kenan professor of radiology and biomedical engineering. Pisano, who also is director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, recently received national accolades for her work in breast cancer prevention research.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/commencement092805.htm
Displaced students see cloudy prospects
The Daily Tar Heel
Universities across the nation welcomed thousands of students displaced by Hurricane Katrina for the fall but are hesitant to make their status permanent. ...“We need to be careful that we have an even-handed approach and that we are not trying to poach students from other schools,” said UNC Provost Robert Shelton.UNC tweaks Mason Farm Road plans
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC continues to refine what it wants to do with Mason Farm Road in the coming decade, with the long-term goal of making it a "parkway-like" access point for the university's southern campus. ...The aim would be to add those lanes essentially between the existing two lanes, and the student family housing that UNC has built along that stretch of road over the last year or so, said Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for planning and construction at UNC.Fundraiser has a date with Carolina Covenant
The Daily Tar Heel
Twenty-three students stood in the Pit on Wednesday night, waiting to be sold to the highest bidder. ...“I’m very excited about the event,” said Ann Trollinger, senior assistant director for the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid. “It’s nice to have support since the number of students receiving scholarships is growing.”
UNC-Chapel Hill gets more than $1M in library grants
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science has been awarded two federal grants totaling more than $1 million from the national Institute of Museum and Library Services. ...The first UNC grant, which totals $804,344, will fund the study "Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science," a three-year project by the school and the UNC Institute on Aging. Researchers will study the career patterns of library and information science graduates, investigating the educational, career, workplace and retention issues they face.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/IMLS092805.htmNo. 1 in the hood, g
The Daily Tar Heel
Chancellor James Moeser made a bold and historic move Tuesday, one that should be applauded by everyone on campus who cares about a free press. During a meeting with Daily Tar Heel editors, Moeser signed a statement affirming the “editorial independence and press freedom of all student-edited campus media.” He did so at the behest of this editorial board, which wanted to take action after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this summer that the right to a free press does not extend to college publications receiving student fees.
A man with many hats
The Daily Tar Heel
While former senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards might not be working in the White House, his position at UNC could give him the opportunity to make a nationwide difference. He has been juggling his time between directing the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC and pursuing his personal goals to end poverty and raise awareness about the issue.
Hospital patients flown away from troubles
The Daily Tar Heel
Thursday at noon, the lobby of the N.C. Children’s Hospital was full of anxious patients in their Looney Tunes pajamas, waiting alongside their parents. ...“This is a clever way to bring healing into the garden,” said Julie Sweedler, a manager at UNC Hospitals.
Note: The News & Observer (Raleigh) and The Chapel Hill Herald ran photos of this event in today's (Sept. 30) editions.
Science Center narrows finalists
The Daily Tar Heel
Last year, UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center had 134,000 visitors from across the state. ...“These are candidates that have been combed from a group,” said Chuck Lovelace, executive director of the Morehead Foundation and a member of the search committee. “This is a serious, hopefully culminating stage in the process.”
Related Link: http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/30/433cb46732c6cDeer-car crashes worsen each year
The Charlotte Observer
The new colors of a Carolina fall: white-tailed deer and red brake lights. Deer were involved in an N.C. record 15,509 crashes last year, UNC's Highway Safety Research Center said Thursday. The deadliest time -- October through December -- begins this weekend.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/rodgman092905.htmDeer-vehicle crashes mount
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
William Burgess had a close encounter of the antlered kind on an after-midnight drive to his Knightdale home in February. ...The number of human fatalities from deer-caused accidents declined slightly, from 10 in 2003 to nine last year, the latest analysis by UNC-Chapel Hill's Highway Safety Research Center shows.
Additional coverage: The Winston-Salem Journal, The Lexington Dispatch, The Associated Press (N.C.), The Chapel Hill Herald, WUNC-FM, WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh), WCNC-TV (NBC, Raleigh)
Critic's Picks - Art
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center at UNC-Chapel Hill today open a group of 35 works from the collections of Joseph F. Jordan, Michael D. Harris and Lynn Igoe. Among the featured artists are Elizabeth Catlett, Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, A.B. Jackson, Arturo Lindsay, Michael Harris, Richard Powell, Gwendolyn Redfern, self-taught artists and members of AfriCobra.
Tour brings facts on breast health
The Chapel Hill Herald
"On the Way to the Cure -- Komen on the Go," a nationwide community educational tour, will bring breast health information to Chapel Hill today. The tour's pink trailer will make a stop on the UNC campus at the Pit, between Davis Library and Lenoir Dining Hall, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the public is invited.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/komenonthego092705.htmEdible Schoolyard teaches food's value (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Where does learning happen? For Alice Waters, it happens in garden dirt and kitchen mixing bowls. ...Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a licensed, registered dietitian and author. She holds a doctorate in health policy and administration from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she is a clinical assistant professor in the School of Public Health.
UNC frat's 'bar' raided
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The fraternity's "bar" had a menu, a file with patrons' tabs, plenty of clientele and a heck of a lot of beer and liquor. ...In what could be the first bar raid inside a UNC-CH fraternity, officers from the N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement Division, the Chapel Hill Police Department and one Chatham County Sheriff's Office canine unit raided St. Anthony Hall at 207 Pittsboro St.
Related Link: http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/30/433cb46732c6c
Issues & Trends
Bowles sole pick for UNC job
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Erskine Bowles is the top choice to be the next president of the 16-campus UNC system. A search committee of the UNC system's Board of Governors announced Thursday that Bowles is its sole finalist. The full board will convene a special meeting Monday to make the choice official. If approved, Bowles would begin work Jan. 1 and earn $425,000 annually.
Related Links: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-UNC-President-Bowles.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/2806339p-9250335c.html
Bowles to be UNC system president
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Erskine Bowles, the Charlotte investment banker, former White House chief of staff and two-time U.S. Senate candidate, is expected to be named the next president of the UNC system. The UNC Presidential Search Committee said Thursday that it would recommend Bowles to the UNC Board of Governors on Monday.
Outstanding choice (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
It's not every day that the top person to emerge in a national search for a top job has a familiar name and face. But the University of North Carolina may never have had a president better prepared for the job than Charlotte businessman Erskine Bowles, whom the UNC Board of Governors is expected to name to that post Monday.
Colleges consider tenure
The Daily Tar Heel
Many of the nation’s research universities are moving to address the difficult balance professors often have to strike between pursuing tenure and having a family. ...“Changes of a year ago said that there could be requests to extend tenure (at UNC-Chapel Hill),” said Judith Wegner, chairwoman of the UNC Faculty Council.
Colleges probed for file sharing stoppage plans
The Daily Tar Heel
As Congress looks to crack down on lax university policies, UNC-system officials say they are doing everything possible to stop illegal file sharing on campus. ...David Harrison, associate vice president for legal affairs for the UNC system, said the universities are doing a sufficient job of discouraging illegal file swapping. “UNC is always concerned about illegal file sharing,” he said. “We had (copyright) policies long before the Internet was even here.”
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